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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab (May 17, 2005). doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00085.2005
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Submitted on February 25, 2005
Accepted on May 1, 2005

Desensitization of the JAK2/STAT5 GH signaling pathway associated with increased CIS protein content in liver of pregnant mice

Johanna G Miquet1, Ana I Sotelo1, Andrzej Bartke2, and Daniel Turyn1*

1 Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Quimica y Fisicoquimica Biologicas (UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2 Geriatrics Research, Departments of Internal Medicine and Physiology, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, Illinois, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dturyn{at}qb.ffyb.uba.ar.

Chronic exposure to growth hormone (GH) was related to the desensitization of the JAK2/STAT5 signaling pathway in liver, as demonstrated in cells, female rats and transgenic mice overexpressing GH. The cytokine-induced suppressor (CIS) is considered a major mediator of this desensitization. Pregnancy is accompanied by an increment in GH circulating levels, which was reported to be associated with hepatic GH resistance, although the molecular mechanisms involved in this resistance are not clearly elucidated. We thus evaluated the JAK2/STAT5b signaling pathway and its regulation by the suppressors of cytokine signaling (SOCS)/CIS family and the JAK2-interacting protein SH2-B{beta} in pregnant mice liver, a model with physiological prolonged exposure to high GH levels. Basal tyrosyl-phosphorylation levels of JAK2 and STAT5b in pregnant mice were similar to values obtained for virgin animals, in spite of the important increment of GH they exhibit. Moreover, these signaling mediators were not phosphorylated upon GH stimulation in pregnant mice. A 3.3-fold increase of CIS protein content was found for pregnant mice, while the abundance of the other SOCS proteins analyzed and SH2-B{beta} did not significantly change compared with virgin animals. The desensitization of the JAK2/STAT5b GH signaling pathway observed in pregnant mice would then be mainly related to increased CIS levels rather than to the other regulatory proteins examined.







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